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...glaring sunstorm boiled the fewest Louisville customers in 15 years (down almost 20,000 to about 108,000, mostly a matter of ticket prices' doubling) and baked the dirt track until the word blew about the backstretch shed rows like a whisper on a breeze: "It's Highway I-65 out there." That cinched what had been the popular wisdom all week. This race would turn on the two speedballs in the field of 13: Spend A Buck and Eternal Prince. Should both dart out ahead, might they form a suicide pact? "Sure, they could kill each other," Jockey Angel...
...Thank you for calling Procter & Gamble concerning the malicious and completely false stories about our company's trademark," begins the recording. That toll-free message at (800) 354-0508 is one of the ways in which Procter & Gamble has tried to quash a persistent whisper campaign alleging that its man-in-the-moon logo is satanic and that the company is somehow involved in devil worship. Last week the giant Cincinnati manufacturer (1984 sales: $12.9 billion) decided that the 103-year-old logo has become more of a headache than it is worth. Frustrated by an inexplicable rebirth...
...both played by Jeff Rossman. It's no wonder that Menelaus doesn't look too worried about recapturing his wandering wife when the Greeks sit down to plot strategies--he knows that he has only to wait for the next scene change to take her in his arms and whisper sweet Grecian nothings into...
...there an answer to this sorry circle of fame and deceit? Schickel's conclusion: "Resistance," holding out against the "new tyranny of the image. We cannot redeem the world. But we can, we unhappy few, redeem ourselves. If we cannot say no in thunder we can at least whisper subversion among ourselves." Such is fame...
...Naples. But when he took a walk, "someone would recognize me, smile and then start clapping. Soon somebody else would follow suit, and in a little while the whole street or piazza was clapping." What actor could resist? Adds Mastroianni: "In Naples the people will smile at you and whisper, 'Hallo, Marcello, we are getting old; come and have a coffee.' But in Rome, God protect you. They will snigger behind your back, 'Now he is old. Look at those lines.' " In such an atmosphere, the two actors could hardly help becoming friends and daydreaming about a possible second film...